SciFinder Scholar

SciFinder Scholar is the premiere chemistry bibliographic and reference research tool. SciFinder Scholar can be searched by research topic, substance identifier, chemical structure, chemical reaction, and/or author's name. In addition, SciFinder Scholar provides access to:

• The Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) literature database of over 22 million references (CAPLUS)
• The CAS substance database of over 44 million registered compounds (REGISTRY)
• The CASREACT database, providing access to over 6 million reactions from the journal literature and patents
• A regulatory chemicals database compiled from an extensive group of state, national, and international regulatory lists and inventories (CHEMLIST) and
• A list of suppliers of commercially available chemicals (CHEMCATS)

The SciFinder Substructure Module allows a researcher to draw a structure and search it as a substructure of a more complicated one. In this module one can draw variables and R-groups, stereo bonds, prohibit substitution and ring fusion at particular nodes and bonds, and refine by property data.

SciFinder Scholar also provides access to the MEDLINE database (1958+), journal tables of contents, and citation linking.

SciFinder Scholar is available only for use by University of Virginia faculty, students and staff. SciFinder Scholar may only be used to support academic research done in the course of pursuing a degree, instructing students, or in conducting research at UVA. SciFinder Scholar may not be used for commercial research. Examples of commercial research might include research that is done under a funding or consultant contract where the results are delivered to a for-profit organization, or research that involves patentability searching. "Patentability searching" means the comprehensive searching of the literature to determine prior art.

SciFinder Scholar is available on the computers in the Chemistry Library and on computers in the Brown Science & Engineering Library Electronic Classroom in Clark Hall. To use SciFinder Scholar in an office or lab, special software must be downloaded onto your computer. This software is available for both PC computers and Macintosh computers. Please note that to use this software from off-Grounds computers you must use UVA Anywhere — regular proxy server software will not work with SciFinder Scholar software from off-Grounds computers.

Here are INSTRUCTIONS for downloading SciFinder Scholar software.

For help and instructional support, please contact Beth Blanton-Kent at bwb9f@virginia.edu or telephone 924-6837.